Cork-fastener



UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

ABRAHAM DENEBEIM, OF EVANSVILLE, INDIANA.

CORK-FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 358,189, dated February 22, 1887.

Application filed December 8, 1886. Serial No. 220,976. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern: 1

Be it known that I, ABRAHAM DENEBEIM, of Evansville, in the county of Vanderburg and State of Indiana, have invented a new and Improved Cork -Fastener, of which the following is, a specification, reference being had to the annexed drawings, forming a part thereof, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved cork-fastener. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the blank of which the fastener is formed, and Fig. 3 is a perspective View showing the application of my improved cork-fastener.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple, inexpensive, and eflicient device for holding corks in bottles.

My invention consists of a plate having a right-angled arm provided with a disk adapted to fit on top of the cork, the platebeing apertured at oneend and provided with a tongue at the opposite end, which is passed through the aperture and bent down when the plate is attached to the neck of a bottle, the right-angled arm carrying the disk being bent down over the cork with its free end inserted underneath the tongue of the plate and bent up over the outer surface of the tongue.

The right-angled plate A consists of a straight portion, B, having at one end an aperture, a, and at the opposite end a tongue, I), capable of entering said aperture a, and of an arm, '0, formed integrally with the straight portion B, and provided with a disk, 0, near the middle of its length.

The cork D is inserted in the bottle-neck E in the usual Way, and the straight portion B of the plate A is, wrapped around the narrower portion of the neck of the bottle under the collar cl, and the tongue b is inserted in the aperture a and bent down upon the outer face of the plate. The arm 0 extends upwardly over the collar d and is bent dow1'1, bringing the disk 0 on the top of the cork D. The extremity of the arm 0 is inserted underneath the tongue I) and bent upward over the tongue, as shown in Fig. 3. V

The cork may be unfastened either by turning back the end of the tongue 12, thus disconnecting the ends of the straight portion B of the plate A by releasing the extremity of the arm 0 from the tongue I), or by cutting either the part B or the arm 0.

My improved cork-fastener may be made of any flexible sheet metal; but I prefer to make it of ordinary sheet-tin.

If desired, the disk 0 may be cupped, so as to inclose the upper end of the cork.

In some cases the disk 0 may be omitted, and the arm 0 may be bent down over the cork, as before.

It will be observed that my improved fastener is made from a single piece of metal, therefore requiring no putting together.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. As an improved article of manufacture, a cork-fastener formed of the plate A, provided with the part B, having the aperture a in one end and the tongue I) at the opposite end, and the arm 0, formed integrally with the part B and provided with the disk c, substantially as shown and described.

2. A cork-fastener formed of the plate A, having the part 13, provided with the aperture as at one end and the tongue I) at the opposite end, and the arm 0, formed integrally with the part B, substantially as shown and described.

ABRAHAM DENEBEIM.

\Vitnesses:

BANE CLAY WILKINsON, J. WM. NORDHEIM. 

